NUMBERS GAME

217 games played for Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo in a three-season span. Luongo, who is in his first year with Vancouver, played in his 70th game Sunday.

MILESTONE

The Avalanche's Joel Quenneville, above, became the 29th head coach in NHL history to reach the 750-game plateau and the fifth to reach the number as a coach and player.

"It's been very enjoyable," said Quenneville, a defenseman during 13 NHL seasons. He played in 803 games for Hartford, Washington, New Jersey, Toronto and the Colorado Rockies.

After spending 2 1/2 seasons as an assistant with the Quebec Nordiques and Avalanche, he was named head coach of the St. Louis Blues on Jan. 6, 1997.

Quenneville remembers "getting pounded" in his first game as head coach, a 5-2 home loss to Edmonton the day after his hiring. He notched his first coaching win Jan. 9, 1997, when the Blues beat San Jose 4-3 at the Shark Tank.

Quenneville returned to the Avalanche as coach July 7, 2004. His record is 389-268-93 after a win Sunday, 82-59-16 with Colorado.

WOLSKI SCRATCHED

Avalanche rookie Wojtek Wolski was a healthy scratch for the second time this season. Since returning Feb. 20 from a concussion that kept him out of the lineup for four games, Wolski has struggled, with only one goal and four assists in 12 games despite getting ample time on the top line with Joe Sakic and Andrew Brunette.